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Those ones are generally blocked by basic firewalls that have been enabled by default since Windows XP SP2, which is now over 21 years old. And devices running software older than that are in practice…

Why is that so far-fetched? If your laptop is behind on security updates, a malicious website you visit could pwn you through a browser exploit, no matter how you have it connected to the Internet.

If a device isn't well-configured, then it's unsafe even if it's not on public Wi-Fi. All of the security focus should be on the endpoints themselves.

The page after completing the quiz is even worse: > Technical Knowledge 9/8 > Consistency 1/5 > Risk Awareness 0/10 > Contradictions Identified: > You acknowledged TLS do…

Almost every question on the quiz is misleading. > Does TLS protect all protocols from layer 2 to layer 7, prior to using something that enjoys TLS? The right answer is "no", but this unn…

> > Regularly change passwords: Frequent password changes were once common advice, but there is no evidence it reduces crime, and it often leads to weaker passwords and reuse across accounts. &g…

> Looking closer at the Steam Machine's specs, one will see that the HDMI 2.0 port delivers up to 4K/120Hz and supports HDR, FreeSync, and CEC. Those are all HDMI 2.1 specs — which techni…

I meant distros are moving towards no unprivileged user namespaces at all , not just no setuid programs inside them.

> But today, couldn't we just open up a mount namespace and bind-mount something else to /tmp, like SystemDs private tempdirs? No, because unless you're already root (in which case y…

But OSI-compatible FOSS licenses include pushover ones like MIT, so even though you couldn't steal all of the contributions to make a proprietary fork, any other company then could.

Fares don't come close to paying for public transit. Public transit is massively subsidized out of general taxes. And besides, the comment upthread said "some", not "all".

> Parking is "super short" because there is never enough supply of something that is free. When you make something free, you induce demand for it. But city parking is very expensive and s…

> Registration is like $100 a year for "unlimited" access to roads. Quite a bit cheaper than a yearly unlimited transit pass. But that's still "some of it". > And electr…

> most US cities have made it illegal to build anything without gobs of parking attached No they haven't. Places with "gobs of parking" are suburban Walmarts. Pretty much every city …

Right. That's why we have to pay vehicle registration fees and gas taxes.

Where can you drive without having to pay registration fees or gas taxes?

Isn't this one of those things that can only work if most people don't do it? If everyone did it, wouldn't something like https://xkcd.com/989/ result?…

Yeah, IMO "verify" was a poor choice of wording for what this is. It has nothing to do with remote attestation or any other form of Treacherous Computing, and it has nothing to do with your …

If that's true, then E2EE will never become mainstream. Consider this scenario: "My phone got lost/stolen/broken, so I just got a new one. I haven't logged in to this app sinc…

Thankfully, no, it's not anything evil like Play Integrity is. The simple explanation is that the first time you log in to an existing account from a new device, you need to go on one of your old…

Yes, we all know that when Elon makes promises about the future, he's always late delivering on them. But this is about the capabilities of something that's already here, and those kind of c…

Those questions all have very clear answers. > Do I need to have my hands on the steering wheel or is the car actually self driving? You don't need to have your hands on the steering wheel, bu…

Autopilot basically hasn't gotten any new features since FSD came out. > But since there is a hardware support overlap, it seems like at some point you'd migrate autopilot cars to the FSD…

In the sense that they're all always included in the base price of the vehicle, and never in optional packages that cost extra.

FSD doesn't drive like that. It's a completely different software stack, not just Autopilot with extra capabilities.

No, only FSD is $8000. All of the safety features are free in every Tesla.